Title: Discussion with special guest Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Kane, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Abstract: Instead of a talk, we will have discussions with a special guest, Dr. Jonathan Kane,...

Title: Gaddum's test for copositivity on symmetric cones Speaker: Michael Orlitzky Abstract: A real symmetric n-by-n matrix A is copositive if is nonnegative for all x in the...

Speaker 1:  Roman Sznajder, Bowie State University Title: Positive Operators (continued from last week) Abstract In this talk I will address the problem of characterization of positive...

Title: Positive Operators Speaker: Roman Sznajder Abstract In this talk I will address the problem of characterization of positive operators on the extended second order cone and some related...

Title:  Some majorization inequalities induced by Schur products in Euclidean Jordan algebras Speaker:  Dr. M. Seetharama Gowda Abstract: In an Euclidean Jordan algebra V of rank n, an element...

Title: The Banach-Steinhaus principle Speaker: Roman Sznajder Abstract The Banach-Steinhaus Theorem is one of the fundamental principles of Functional Analysis. We will provide one of various...

Title: When a maximal angle among cones is nonobtuse Speaker: Michael Orlitzky Abstract: Principal angles between linear subspaces have been studied for their application to statistics, numerical...

Title: Admission of a complex structure and complexification of Banach spaces.  The story of restriction and extension of the field of scalars. Speaker: Roman Sznajder Abstract In the class of...

Title:Optimizing linear and distance functions over spectral sets Speaker: Dr. M. Seetharama Gowda Abstract: In the settings of Euclidean Jordan algebras and normal decomposition systems...

Title: On subtangentiality and Z-operators Speaker: Michael Orlitzky Abstract: Let K be a closed convex cone with dual cone dual(K) in a finite-dimensional real Hilbert space V. If L is a linear...